Exhibition preview: “Jim Beoddy: Espreet Décor” is a once in a lifetime opportunity

James Beoddy is a wonderfully complex and compassionate personality that too few know. Those who do may know him as one of his other (performance art) personas Goblinhood or Chimera (aka Chim). Some may know his underground comics; many have been published in the alternative paper Columbus Free Press since the 1970s. Less know his decades-long career as a prolific and unparalleled master artist working in a number of different mediums. Even less actually know who James, or Jim as those closest call him, is as a person because he’s been somewhat of a recluse throughout his life. And tragically, too many of us will never get the chance to.